I think this is a defect of Sqoop, and opened a jira for it: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1164. I set the priority as Minor, because it has the workaround: only leave the target driver jar file in the sqoop/lib folder, but remove other driver jar files from the folder. However, it should be mentioned that when we have many dirver jar files under sqoop/lib folder for multiple kinds of databases, or a script will connect to different databases, this workaround can not work well.
Thanks! 2013/8/6 sam liu <liuqiyun2...@gmail.com> > Hi Experts, > > Under SQOOP/lib, I have both hsqldb driver jar file and mysql driver jar > file: > - lib/hsqldb-1.8.0.10.jar > - lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.20-bin.jar > > But, when I try to connect to mysql db using sqoop import tool, sqoop will > pick up hsqldb driver jar and returned following exception. Even if I add > '--connection-manager org.apache.sqoop.manager.MySQLManager' into the > command, this issue still exists. But, after I removed the hsqldb jar file > from lib folder, this issue does not exist any more. > > Why? What's the correct method to invoke import tool to avoid such issue? > Thanks! > > > bin/sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql://hostname:3306/test > --connection-manager org.apache.sqoop.manager.MySQLManager --username user > --password pwd --table testtbl -m 1 --target-dir /tmp/test5 > 13/08/05 18:44:03 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: Setting your password on the > command-line is insecure. Consider using -P instead. > 13/08/05 18:44:03 INFO manager.MySQLManager: Preparing to use a MySQL > streaming resultset. > 13/08/05 18:44:03 INFO tool.CodeGenTool: Beginning code generation > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: > org/hsqldb/DatabaseURL.parseURL(Ljava/lang/String;ZZ)Lorg/hsqldb/persist/HsqlProperties; > at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver.getConnection(Unknown Source) > at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver.connect(Unknown Source) > at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:402) > at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:450) > at > org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:745) > at > org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52) > at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.execute(SqlManager.java:605) > at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.execute(SqlManager.java:628) > at > org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.getColumnTypesForRawQuery(SqlManager.java:235) > at > org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.getColumnTypes(SqlManager.java:219) > at > org.apache.sqoop.manager.ConnManager.getColumnTypes(ConnManager.java:283) > at > org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.getColumnTypes(ClassWriter.java:1255) > at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.generate(ClassWriter.java:1072) > at > org.apache.sqoop.tool.CodeGenTool.generateORM(CodeGenTool.java:82) > at > org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:390) > at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:476) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:145) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:181) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:220) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:229) > at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:238) > > -- > > Sam Liu > -- Sam Liu